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Grand unification and heavy axion

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-09-06 v2

Abstract

We argue that sufficiently complex grand unified theories involving extra strong intractions that confine at very short distances, may lead to a heavy axion solution of the CP problem of QCD. This axion may have a mass within accessible energy range, and its low energy interactions emerge through mixing with axial Higgs boson(s). Another signature of this scenario is softly broken Peccei-Quinn symmetry in the electroweak Higgs sector. We present a toy GUT exhibiting these features.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9703409,
  title  = {Grand unification and heavy axion},
  author = {V. A. Rubakov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9703409},
  year   = {2016}
}

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A few references added, a typo corrected. 6 pages of LaTeX, no figures